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Apollo , from his shrine , Can no more divine , With hollow shriek the steep of
Delphos leaving . No nightly trance , or breathed spell , Inspires the pale - eyed
priest from the prophetick cell . The lonely mountains o ' er , And the resounding ...
Apollo , from his shrine , Can no more divine , With hollow shriek the steep of
Delphos leaving . No nightly trance , or breathed spell , Inspires the pale - eyed
priest from the prophetick cell . The lonely mountains o ' er , And the resounding ...
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... a devout reverence to the authority of law both human and Divine. But his was
a dignified submission. He could discern the distinction between rational
obedience and the prostration of the whole nature before a tyranny which strove
to lord ...
... a devout reverence to the authority of law both human and Divine. But his was
a dignified submission. He could discern the distinction between rational
obedience and the prostration of the whole nature before a tyranny which strove
to lord ...
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The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon,
consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the
Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, ...
The Scripture also affords us a divine pastoral drama in the Song of Solomon,
consisting of two persons, and a double chorus, as Origen rightly judges. And the
Apocalypse of St. John is the majestic image of a high and stately tragedy, ...
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They fear the plain field of the Scriptures; the chase is too hot; they seek the dark,
the bushy, the tangled forest; they would imbosk; they feel themselves struck in
the transparent streams of Divine truth; they would plunge and tumble, and think
...
They fear the plain field of the Scriptures; the chase is too hot; they seek the dark,
the bushy, the tangled forest; they would imbosk; they feel themselves struck in
the transparent streams of Divine truth; they would plunge and tumble, and think
...
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... as if they could make God earthly and fleshly, because they could not make
themselves heavenly and spiritual; they began to draw down all the Divine
intercourse betwixt God and the soul, yea, the very shape of God himself, into an
exterior ...
... as if they could make God earthly and fleshly, because they could not make
themselves heavenly and spiritual; they began to draw down all the Divine
intercourse betwixt God and the soul, yea, the very shape of God himself, into an
exterior ...
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Página 111 - The end, then, of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection.
Página 43 - Rain influence, and judge the prize Of wit or arms, while both contend To win her grace whom all commend. There let Hymen oft appear In saffron robe, with taper clear, And pomp, and feast, and revelry, With mask and antique pageantry; Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.
Página 40 - Sometimes with secure delight The upland hamlets will invite, When the merry bells ring round, And the jocund rebecks sound To many a youth and many a maid, Dancing in the chequered shade...
Página 44 - And ever, against eating cares, Lap me in soft Lydian airs, Married to immortal verse ; Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out, With wanton heed and giddy cunning ; The melting voice through mazes running, Untwisting all the chains that tie The hidden soul of harmony ; That Orpheus...
Página 37 - Haste thee nymph and bring with thee Jest and youthful jollity, Quips and cranks, and wanton wiles, Nods, and becks, and wreathed smiles. Such as hang on Hebe's cheek, And love to live in dimple sleek; Sport that wrinkled care derides. And laughter holding both his sides. Come, and trip it as ye go On the light fantastic toe...
Página 129 - God's trophies, and his work pursued, While Darwen stream, with blood of Scots imbrued, And Dunbar field, resounds thy praises loud, And Worcester's laureate wreath.
Página 53 - Or call up him that left half-told The story of Cambuscan bold, Of Camball, and of Algarsife, And who had Canace to wife That own'd the virtuous ring and glass ; And of the wondrous horse of brass On which the Tartar king did ride...
Página 119 - He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better, he is the true wayfaring Christian.
Página 35 - Hence, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy ! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings ; There, under ebon shades and low-browed rocks, As ragged as thy locks, In dark Cimmerian desert ever dwell.
Página 113 - I shall detain you no longer in the demonstration of what we should not do, but straight conduct ye to a hillside, where I will point ye out the right path of a virtuous and noble education; laborious indeed at the first ascent, but else so smooth, so green, so full of goodly prospect and melodious sounds on every side, that the Harp of Orpheus was not more charming.
Información bibliográfica
| Título | John Milton: A Biography, Especially Designed to Exhibit the Ecclesiastical Principles of that Illustrious Man |
| Autor | Cyrus R. Edmonds |
| Editor | A. Cockshaw, 1851 |
| Procedencia del original | Universidad de Michigan |
| Digitalizado | 16 Mayo 2005 |
| Largo | 251 páginas |
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